Battletech X68000 port of 1989 MechWarrior

Port of Dynamix Inc's 1989 DOS game MechWarrior to the Japanese Sharp X68000 computer in 1992 by Crossmedia. At least that's what I think. There's literally no information about this game, not in English anyway. That's why I made this video.

This is actually a compilation of four seperate videos, meant to mainly show off the battles. Some parts where edited out to fit into the 15 minute space.

If you're wondering why I suck at this game, it's because:
1) I don't remember any of the controls.
2) I don't know one bit of Japanese.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Mechwarrior
• Battletech
• X68000
• 1989

[deboshadow]

Looks WAY better than the original Battletech game i played on the computer. My brother lucked out at a K-Mart and found the first 3 Battletech games for 5$ for DOS. They were one 5 1/4 floppys. Looked NOWHERE near this decent. (Crescent Hawk's Inception, Crescent Hawks Revenge, and the similar game to this)

[FredFuchs86]

@deboshadow Yes it does look a lot better, but at the cost that the Japanese had to wait three years to play it. The DOS/IBM version came out in 1989, this is from 1992.

[TheSteelcrusader]

i have this for a emulator and its awesome but the language is tricky but since i played the first mechwarrior i can remember what the words supposed to be

[MysticArksRevenge]

@deboshadow I agree. Japan is the masters of game making and reprogramming.

[lordmcted]

anyone else just get shocked by how much the snes version from the 90s was a copy of this? :o

right down to the music and menus etc :o

[ChessPieceRook]

Hey "FredFuchs86"?

you forgot the most important tip for Mechwarrior combat. >.>

SHOOT THE LLLLEEEEEEEEEEGGGGGSSSSS!!!!!!­ OxO

XD

[Asop43]

I REMEMBER THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[michaelgiovetti]

@ZMEMatchstick "Contrary to all the press and speculation that Harmony Gold was getting in the way of a deal or development, this had no impact whatsoever on development or signing a deal for MechWarrior."

... let alone the fact that Harmony Gold just have rights to them here in the US- it's not like they were the guys who created and sold the designs to both FASA and Harmony Gold... But since HG does have the US rights to the Macross/Robotech designs, they like to flaunt it.

[Boltivator]

@Me102288 Matchstick's right, ne1 familiar with BTech refers to them as "the unseen" because they were dropped from pubs and Mech-titles around '95 - the PC games had them into "Ghost Bear's Legacy" but never after. They were still popular in table-top and fan-fiction, but were otherwise always referred to (espeically on rec.games.mecha) as "the unseen".

[Me102288]

@ZMEMatchstick unseen? it was in the first mechwarrior pc game, the one this video is talking about..

I remember it like yesterday,it had a Battlemaster, Warhammer, Marauder, Shadow hawk, Phoenix Hawk? not sure,, Rifleman, Jenner and Locust.. Far as I know the warhammer has been in every one since... why do they complain now :-\ pffftt

played it on a 3.77mhz xt at that time lol..

well, at least it was a whole 1.77mhz faster then the AT's at 2mhz....... hahaha

[ZMEMatchstick]

@Me102288

yes FASA was the copyright holder to battletech but not the unseen WarHammer. any and all unseen mechs are the copyright of Harmony Gold. so ya even if they got all the rights that FASA did that would not include unseen's like the warhammer. why do you think the unseen Warhammer was polled from Btech in the first place? bottom line it S&T and piranha games fucked themselfs over by adding that stuff lol.

[Me102288]

@ZMEMatchstick hmm, wonder if the can stick the FASA copywrite of those mechs.. Fasa was the original copyright of battletech, which the warhammer was first seen in so..

whoever bought the franchise fro fasa I think they should have the right to include any mech in battletech in the new mw5 :-\

copywrites move with the selling of a business dont they? Bah, I'd just change a couple little things like making the missle rack on the opposite side and change the shape of feet .. lol